Responses for Show #2817 - Tuesday, November 26, 1996

1996 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Bill Sloan, a real estate broker from Mission Viejo, California

Michael Daunt, an accountant from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Mary Hirschfeld, an economics professor from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC NAMES
INVENTIONS
HOME RUN SLUGGERS
ANNUAL EVENTS
FASHION
ALPHABET SOUP
    $100 6
Genghis Khan

Michael
    $100 16
Hourglass

Mary
    $100 1
Mickey Mantle

Michael
    $100 17
St. Augustine

Mary
    $100 27
Bikini

Michael
    $100 11
E.R.A. (Equal Rights Amendment)

Mary
    $200 7
Pythagoras

Michael
    $200 20
Eli Whitney

Mary
    $200 2
Hank Aaron

Michael
    $200 18
Puerto Rico

Mary
    $200 28
Seersucker

Mary
    $200 12
LP

Michael
    $300 8
Babylon

Michael
    $300 19
Cork

Bill
    $300 3
Roger Maris

Mary
    $300 23
Kwanzaa

Mary
    $300 29
Retro

Michael
    $300 13
Bachelor of Literature

Mary
    $400 9
Adam Smith

Bill
    $400 21
Linus Yale

Bill
    $400 4
Mark McGwire

Mary
    $400 24
Nova Scotia

Bill
    $400 30
(Michael: What are scarves?)
(Bill: What are gloves?)

Purses

MichaelBill
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
(Alex: Mexico City, Munich, Montreal & Moscow)

M

Bill
    $500 10
Suleiman

Michael
    $500 22
Snugli

Michael
    $500 5
Mike Schmidt

Michael
    $1,000 25
(Bill: I don't have a clue!)
(Alex: Ohh... it's a fun time, "What is [*]?" and in Waterloo, Ontario and Kitchener, Ontario, Michael, they have a big [*] every year!)
(Michael: Huge one!)

Oktoberfest

Bill
    $500 26
Piet Mondrian

Mary
    $500 15
R.U.R.

Michael

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Mary Michael Bill
$1,100 $2,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mary Michael Bill
$2,700 $3,100 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LATIN AMERICA
1796
(a good year!)
OPERA LIBRETTISTS
POLITICS
VETERINARY MEDICINE
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN...
    $200 2
Roman Catholic

Mary
    $200 18
Poor Richard's Almanack

Bill
    $200 3
Scott Joplin

Michael
    $200 1
(Alex: Thanks for the extra information!)

Jack Kemp (of Occidental College)

Mary
    $200 21
Acupuncture

Michael
    $200 13
"National Velvet"

Michael
    $400 5
Sandinistas

Bill
    $400 4
Catherine the Great

Mary
    $400 9
Alexandre Dumas

Mary
    $400 15
George McGovern

Mary
    $400 22
Worm

Michael
    $400 14
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Bill
    $600 6
Chichen Itza

Mary
    $600 19
Andrew Jackson

Mary
    $600 10
John Updike

Michael
    $600 23
Kennel Cough

Bill
    $1,500 12
(Michael: What is "Travels With My Aunt?")

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Michael
    $800 7
Georgetown

Michael
    $800 11
(Bill: Who is Greeley?)

Horace Mann

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Emile Zola

Mary
    $800 27
Mario Cuomo

Mary
    $800 24
Hair

Michael
    $800 26
South Pacific

Bill
    $1000 8
Salvador Allende

Mary
    $1000 20
(Michael: What is Portugal?)

The Netherlands/Holland

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
Maurice Maeterlinck

Triple Stumper
    $3,000 29
(Bill: [No response])
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Barbara Mikulski

Bill
    $1000 25
(and we have less than a minute to go...)

Distemper

Michael
    $1000 28
(Alex: And all those clues had to do with Elizabeth Taylor - I don't know if you noticed that...)

Cleopatra

Bill

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mary Michael Bill
$8,100 $4,800 $100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SHORT STORIES
BillWhat is The Gift of the Magi?
$100
MichaelWhat is The Gift of the Magi?
$3,301
MaryWhat is "A Christmas in New England?"
$1,501
"The Gift of the Magi"

Final scores:

Mary Michael Bill
$6,599 $8,101 $200
2nd place: $5,000 Finalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mary Michael Bill
$8,100 $6,300 $4,100
21 R,
0 W		 20 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $18,500

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Game tape date: 1996-10-09
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